[PyKDE] Changes in Current SIP & PyQt Snapshots

[Gerard Vermeulen]

Great, the SIP's changelog scared me off.

On the other hand, there is a changelog for PyQt, but no source code (I know
this is supposed to be fixed, but it is broken again).

Gerard

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:19:08 +0100
Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:

> With SIP v4 getting closer, there are a some major changes in current SIP and 
> PyQt snapshots.
> 
> The first thing to say is that if you are using SIP v3.8 to generate your own 
> extension modules then the snapshots should continue to work - it's a bug if 
> they don't. I've stopped introducing incompatibilities to SIP v3 in order to 
> align it to SIP v4. Instead SIP v3 will support the old way of doing things 
> as well as the new (SIP v4) way of doing things.
> 
> SIP now takes a -w flag which will issue warnings if you are using features 
> that will not appear in SIP v4. It doesn't identify all of them (eg. utility 
> functions called from handwritten code) but it's better than nothing.
> 
> The biggest changes are that %MemberCode and %VirtualCode are deprecated and 
> replaced with %MethodCode and %VirtualCatcherCode. The result is that the 
> amount of handwritten code needed is greatly reduced and much simpler.
> 
> The sip.h file has been updated to properly identify which utility functions 
> are part of the SIP v4 API. If, when you have ported your handwritten code to 
> the v4 style, you think that there are v3 specific functions you still need 
> then let me know.
> 
> The other area of change is build.py for both SIP and PyQt. The SIP build.py 
> now creates and installs a module called sipconfig.py. This contains 
> information about the system configuration and utilities for use by extension 
> modules' own build.py. As a result PyQt's build.py is now 600 lines, rather 
> than 1600 lines, and takes fewer command line arguments. Eventually this 
> mechanism will be extended so that PyQt's build.py will install a 
> pyqtconfig.py module for use by extension modules that are built on top of 
> PyQt.
> 
> The current PyQt snapshot has been fully migrated to the new scheme. It will 
> work unchanged with both SIP v3 and v4 and contains no "If v3 ... else ..." 
> sort of code.
> 
> No date yet on when SIP v4 snapshots will be made available, but I hope it 
> will be weeks rather than months.
> 
> Phil
> 
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